RFP to provide consultancy services for digitizing data on out-of school children (OOSC) in Bihar

Organization: UNICEF

Apply By: 28 May 2019

RFP title: RFP to provide consultancy services for digitizing data on out-of school children (OOSC) in Bihar

Deadline: 28th May 2019

Background:

In Bihar, considerable gains have been made with respect to education, particularly in ensuring children’s access to education, through the government’s sarva shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and the implementation of the right to education despite these efforts, a sizeable proportion of children remain out of school with 11 million children out of school.

Purpose of the Assignment:

The purpose of the assignment is to support the government in mapping out-of-school children through digitization of the collected data and development of profiles of the household and children. This would allow the government to make data- driven policy decisions and inform UNICEF to plan on flexible strategies for ensuring education of OOSC

Objective:

Unicef will support the government to digitize the data collected by the shikha sevis on the 17 lakh household data on OOSC

The assignment is aligned with UNICEF’s country programme to identify and reduce the number of out-of-school children in the country as a means to improve quality of education.

Major tasks to be accomplished:

Collection of the already filled OOSC formats containing details of approximately 17,81,120 household with household and children profile, from the office of the district Mass Education officials in 38 districts in coordination with department of mass education, Patna.

Data cleaning of the formats

Data entry of 17,81,120 lakh household and children

Complete district-wise profile on children aged 3-18 years

The firm should have:

At least five years experience in data management

Proven track record at least two assignments of large scale data entry at the state level, working with reputed organizations and/or the government, with on-time delivery.